David Landes Quotes
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilitiesDavid Landes
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
Sam Neill -
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
Omari Hardwick -
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
Gary Busey -
Defending peace is the duty of all.
Fidel Castro -
I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
Fiona Shaw -
Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
Hans Vestberg
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
Nathan Fillion -
Political correctness kills discussion.
Lars von Trier -
Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.
Pat Robertson -
If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
I know this is something that I'm saying to every fan out there and every person that thinks the world of the Redskins and pulls for them, ... I know a lot of people will disagree with this, and I understand that. For me personally, I felt like it was a decision I had to make.
Joe Gibbs
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I was a terrible English student.
Leon Uris -
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
Alexander McQueen -
We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.
Erykah Badu -
When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them.
Valentino Garavani -
Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She's ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
Billy Joel -
Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of the lumberman. But popular opinion, combined with action, if directed intelligently towards the setting apart of some one section of the noble redwood forests... will, I believe, save for our present delight and for that of the generations who come after us, at least one grand forest of the Sequoia sempervirens such as the world cannot show elsewhere, such as a thousand years cannot reproduce.
Frank Howard Clark
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In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
Albert Meltzer -
Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite.
Bernard Bolzano -
As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.
Austin Ligon -
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities
David Landes